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**Materials**: Classroom blog website: [] Student Life Science book
 * __3. Materials and Technology Tools__**

**Technology** **tools** : Blogs: []; each student will use the class blog to reflect and provide feedback on their subject. This will increase awareness of writing for an audience and purpose and students will be able to provide direct feedback to each other. Kidspiration: students will use Kidspiration to create visual organizers to increase their organization skills. Creating their own organizers in Kidspiration will help them be more creative and will keep them interested. Facebook: [|www.facebook.com]; students will be aware that their writing will be viewed by an audience not just the teacher. This will encourage students to think twice about what they are writing and how they could influence their readers with their posts. Photo story 3: Each group will present their findings through a photo story 3 video. They will have a chance to play with technology increasing student interests and it is more fun than writing a research paper on what they learned.